Online
Testing
The Instructional Technology Department
has several initiatives related to online testing.
These include....
1. Questionmark Perception
Questionmark
Perception is a solution that enables authoring, administration,
and reporting on computerized assessments. An example
of how the solution can be implemented, is the initiative
by the Center for Health Sciences Deparment of Nursing,
who are currently engaged in developing a database
of high quality, reliable and valid assessments. Some
of the key features of this application include:
»
Secure or open environment for assessments
»Easy-to-use
assessment authoring tool
»Question
banking organized by learning objective
»Interactive
delivery on Intranets, the Internet and Windows
PCs
»Shuffled
choices, with easy selection and randomization of
questions
»Instant
feedback to participants at item, topic and/or assessment
levels
»Feedback
that can include hyperlinks to learning materials
and web applications
»Adaptive
branching based on how questions are answered
»Online
viewing of results, reports and item analysis
»Multiple
report styles that canbe customized
»Exporting
of answers for custom reporting
»Storage
of answers, scores, and results in MS Access or
SQL (Microsoft or Oracle) databases
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